Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Newt Gingrich may be the better presidential candidate than Mitt Romney, making him the latest high-profile Republican to try to add credibility to Mr. Gingrichs surge in the polls.

My gut tells me right now as I look at it that Gingrich might actually be the stronger candidate, because I think he can make a broader connection than Mitt Romney to those Reagan Democrats, Mr. Giuliani said Monday night on CNN.

For all any of us may have had to say against him from time to time, we'll mostly agree Rudy's a knowledgable street fighter who beat the DemonREat Dinkins, a commnist NYC mayor who was much like the Illegal is today, a fact that gives Rudy a lot of cred when he talks about the kind of man it will take to beat the Illegal. To me, it's better than an endorsement.

One of the differences between Mitt and Newt is that Newt wasn’t in office when he did these things that he is being criticized for. Newt made speeches saying things that conservatives don’t like “Reagan era is over” or praising FDR or the individual mandate during the 1990’s, and he did things like the ad with Nancy Pelosi out of office. Mitt was in office when he did things that conservatives dislike. I’m not voting for either.

While I am posting this in response to you, there are a lot more posts that I have read here that probably deserve more credit for my response than yours, so don’t take offense. This is not focused on you.

Personally, I’m looking for a progression that looks sort of like this: /s

Newt knocks off Romney. Perry then knocks off Newt. Santorum knocks off Perry. Bachmann knocks off Santorum. Cain knocks off Bachmann. Ron Paul knocks off Ron Paul. Palin knocks off Cain. Giuliani and Dame Edna knock the whole bunch off, and declare a national holiday, before running off for a three month vacation across Asia, leaving the nation in the lurch.

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posted on 12/13/2011 2:04:08 PM PST
by DoughtyOne
(Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What laegacy?)

;^)

I don’t think Rudy is a RINO other than on a few social issues. He is against illegal immigration and Obamacare, which is more than we can say for either of our two frontrunners. Granted, he is a gun grabber and a gay lover.

I think that is one of Newts strengths. He can connect to the average voter in terms they can understand and bypass the msm. I believe Reagan and Christy also have those qualities. Another is he has kept his attacks on fellow Republicans to a minimum. Third is he has enough conservative credentials to be to the right of Romney. He is not scared to take on all comers in a debate/discussion of the issue such as the recent Newt/Huntsman debate in New Hampshire. IMHO these are the reasons he is in the lead.

He’s obviously very much part of the political fabric, so he can’t help but be an establishment politician.

That being said, I do see a man who may have changed from 15 years ago. I have little doubt that he feels differently than he used to as he looks back on his life so far - based on things I have heard him say.

And us “crazy Reformed” so often talk about the conversion spoken of in the Bible, i.e., salvation.

So I pause before I think a man unworthy of office solely because of sins committed prior to conversion. Which I can’t say the moment a man is saved, of course, but - he has publicly stated that he is returning to faith in Christ, so something good appears to be going on.

It just jumps out at me, from my Reformed view.

Many come to walk with God later in life, where they did not before that.

Divorce should be an important part of evaluating a candidate, but we really should look at all the candidates - and every aspect of each one, IMHO. We may find that we’re only able to look for the best peach in the basket.

He was a wonderful Mayor. Like other N.E. Republicans, so-called “social issues” like LIFE, don’t much matter to them, or to Rudy, except in their “personal belief system,” never mind that the pro-abortion position goes against his own Church’s teaching -— so that issue alone was a deal killer for me when he ran for the GOP- nomination.

Like I said, I think he was a wonderful Mayor during 911 and he comes across really likeable and I fully understand why people like him.

It’s not the marriages that rankle me, either. It is the cruelty he and Giuliani have shown their wives while they conducted extramarital affairs. If they can treat their wives like that, how will they treat the country?

Well, ok then. Is he a changed man ? Perhaps you can think about that. I don’t know if he truly is, he seems like he has a different perspective.

So, IMHO, I file that away. Then I move on to the issues and go down the checklist.

Inside the beltway - check. Ok, maybe he’s changed. File that away.

Wants to “bring muslims into modernity”. Oops. Not going to work. This guy wants more muslims to come to America so they can go back to their home country and convince millions of people that want to kill us to change and become like us ? Hmmm.. not so smart.

Healthcare. Has a lot of grand ideas which are NOT simply: force the private sector to come up with it’s own solutions and get government out of the way and don’t have the government helping big medicine to make even more money since they don’t need help they need competition. check. This is scary. He has a lot of ideas in this area. They talk about parnterships, and patient-centered, and they go on and on. Big plans by politicians never work out well.

Other than that, if he’s elected, maybe things will work out ok. I don’t know. I am just so sick of politicians. And government - imposing “programs”. And running government schools. Everything is just more of the same. More mindless indoctrination. More government jobs. More debt. More laws taking away guns. More laws encouraging immorality. Which results in more immorality. More taxes. More laws against Christianity.

I used to be the biggest supporter of Gingrich, but I no longer trust him. It seems that he’ll take up whatever issue is the flavor of the day and then abandon it next week. I don’t know how he can call another candidate a flip flopper, when he reminds me of a big, fat fish flipping around in the bottom of a boat. I’d still take him over Obama, but I wouldn’t rest easy. (And neither should Callista.)

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